NBC Sunday Showcase

NBC Sunday Showcase
Directed byJohn Frankenheimer
Country of originUnited States
Original release
NetworkNBC
ReleaseSeptember 20, 1959 (1959-09-20) –
1960 (1960)
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Barbara Rush, John Forsythe and Larry Blyden in a scene from What Makes Sammy Run? on NBC Sunday Showcase (September 27 and October 4, 1959).

NBC Sunday Showcase was a series of hour-long specials telecast in color on NBC during the 1959–60 season. The flexible anthology format varied weekly from comedies and science fiction to musicals and historical dramas. The recent introduction of videotape made repeats possible, and two 1959 dramas (Murder and the Android and What Makes Sammy Run?) had repeats in 1960.[1]

On the heels of his Broadway hits The Pajama Game and Damn Yankees, Richard Adler composed the opening Sunday Showcase theme music, titled "Sunday Drive" (a.k.a. "Sunday Showcase Theme").